Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth during WWII, and how it structured his whole approach to cinema, not only in its thematic but also in its aesthetics.
Michel Dreyfus-Schmidt
Self
Leo Fortel
Self

Pierre Grasset
Self
Laurent Grousset
Self

Rémy Grumbach
Self

Masahiro Kobayashi
Self

André S. Labarthe
Self

Philippe Labro
Self
Jean-Jacques Nataf
Self
Rui Nogueira
Self

Volker Schlöndorff
Self

Bertrand Tavernier
Self

Johnnie To
Self

François Chalais
Self (archive footage)

Jacques Chancel
Self (archive footage) (voice)